Al Ain / Ras Al Khaimah: The father of an Emirati student who died in a road accident before completing her university studies attended her graduation ceremony to accept an academic excellence certificate in her memory, as the UAEU University fulfilled her mother’s wish to see her daughter honoured among her graduating classmates.

On Thursday, October 22, Bainah Daeij Khalaf Al Karab Al Ali, 20, was honoured in absentia at the beginning of the university’s graduation ceremony for the 2026–2027 academic year, with her father, Daeij Khalaf Al Karab Al Ali, receiving the certificate on her behalf.

Bainah was in her fourth year at UAEU’s College of Science and approaching graduation when she died in a road accident on Al Dhaid Road on Friday, October 16.

Her death left her family grieving the loss of a daughter whose academic achievements they had only begun to fully appreciate through the words of her professors and classmates.

Pain and pride

Speaking to Gulf News after the ceremony, her father said the…